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1. Voo de Mar says:

   December 8, 2020 at 9:09 pm

   Points won by each set: | 33-32, 17-27, 43-30, 30-41, 31-25 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   29 % Rios – 46 of 156
   31 % Agassi – 48 of 153

   The only final (lasted 2 hours 55 minutes) in history of the tournament without a big server, but in 1998 the surface was slowed down (from carpet to hard), a prognostic of the things to come…
   Rios looked like he would retire, but he somehow won the opening set and his physical problems evaporated. “Even if I was not feeling good, I played one of my best matches”, he said. “I’m really proud I can win a match like that.” “I wasn’t feeling that good all day,” said Agassi, who earned $650,000. “It’s hard to recover in 15 hours or so” referring to his semifinal that lasted 3 hours 41 minutes (he saved four match points vs Kucera)… Rios won 5 out of 6 service games in the 3rd set at ‘love’! The number of participants of the ’98 event was reduced from 16 to 12 (the same applied in 1999). Rios earned 1.3 million dollars. Despite the smaller format of the event, he wasn’t the first champion to win three matches instead of four, Ivanisevic also won just three in 1995 when received a walkover in the quarterfinal.

   Rios’ route to his 11th title:
   Q Felix Mantilla 7-6(2), 7-5
   S Mark Philippoussis 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-4
   W Andre Agassi 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(1), 5-7, 6-3

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